Black Friday

[FM]

one of the best (or worst) shopping days of the year in the US (supposedly), but it's also the official "kickoff" to the holiday shopping season.

Most store's Black Friday ads usually do not come out until the week of Thanksgiving, usually the day before Thanksgiving (this year, that would be November 24th). However, the joys of the Internet can disallow such through insider info.

All deals posted on BF2004.net are to be regarded as rumors because there is never 100% confirmation until the real ads come out. However, in the past years, these rumors have had a high success rate of being true.

http://www.bf2004.net

figure out ahead of time where you may want to go. Personally from past years, either:

a) nothing's worth it.
b) you can only get to one store, as most crap sells out in a heartbeat.
c) in said store if you have multiple items in mind, better order them in importance because you may not get them all.
d) The smarter and savvier shopper is the one stores HATE

[skahound]

I finally know what everyone's getting for Christmas this year:

Classic Standard-Size Bed Pillow $1.99

[picklemonkey]

$30 128MB MP3 players at Radio Shack

[Jibgolly]

christmas typically starts around November 1st.
and typically lasts til mid January or even early februaru for some.
it's the holiday that keeps going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going

[FM]

yea already seeing holiday ads from jewelry stores

Happy Holidays my a$$

are they over yet?

[boymercury]

to my knowledge best buy does carry belkin wireless products in the stores... at all actually

[picklemonkey]

to my knowledge best buy does carry belkin wireless products in the stores... at all actually

Thanks for the info! I was worried that I wouldn't be able to look at the Belkin... but now that I know for sure that Best Buy does carry them at all then I've got nothing to worry about

[3d_1200]

please pray for those of us working at electronic retailers on this day as im scheduled 5am - 11pm.

fuck you circuit city. fuck you.

[FM]

oh I do believe me...I feel bad for you guys having to put up with everyone's crap that day...

makes me glad I can walk in, get what I want, pay no problem, thank you, walk out....

and laugh at all the morons who don't have half a clue it seems what they are buying, except it's "on sale"

[skahound]

Haha, I used to be an Operations Manager for Best Buy...talk about your long days. I used to work 4am-8pm the day after Thanksgiving and then 12 hours/day 6 days per week and then a 10 hour day on Sunday preparing schedules, etc. every week after until New Year's Day. Holy shit I'm glad I decided to leave to go back to school. When you're first promoted and they tell you you'll be making $xx,xxx/year you think "Wow, where do I sign?" Especially when you don't have a college degree. Then when you end up working 80 hour weeks and you realize you're only making about $14/hour it hits you.

[3d_1200]

ahh well im getting out of work a bit early on the 26th and driving to chicago for deepdish at sound bar. Not a bad way to salvage black friday.

[boymercury]

Re: Black Friday

yo skahound,
which store did you work at & where? i have to be at best buy @ 4.30 am to sell 3o laptops to the first 3o people in line & tell all the rest of the cheap bastards to flogg off. tons of fun. btw if anyone out there is looking at buy the cheap laptop, don't its not worth the wait in line or the cost. save your money & buy something better

[skahound]

Re: Black Friday

yo skahound,
which store did you work at & where?

I was Ops Mgr at 424 in Gainesville, Florida and I started as a Rep I at store 157 in Orlando, Florida. I worked there from March 2000 - February 2002.

[boymercury]

Re: Black Friday

I started as a Rep I at store 157 in Orlando, Florida. I worked there from March 2000 - February 2002.

is that on colonial? you know jade esparza? 885 here in new pohdunk.. i mean new port richey.

[skahound]

haha..Jade! That dude is a character. Yeah it's on E Colonial. Jade was one of my boys while I worked there. Was dating a really good friend of mine that worked there too, Amanda. Small world dude.